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3276 M St. NW
(202) 342-2500
Hours of Operation and Prices
Open: Sun-Th 9 am-8 pm, F-Sat 9 am-9 pm
Entrees: $4-$7.25
Other Information
• America Express, MasterCard, Visa
• Dress: casual
• No Reservations
• Street parking
• Handicapped accessible
• Dean & Deluca Cafes has two other branches, also in the District of Columbia: 1299 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, (202) 628-8155, and 1919 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, (202) 296-4327.
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It's not the food that's imported from New York to Washington's Dean & Deluca Cafes. It's the style. These self-service cafes use Washington breads - baguettes, focaccia, onion rolls - for sandwiches, and the same produce as everyone else. But those grilled chicken or eggplant slices on baguettes with tomatoes, arugula, mozzarella or whatever have a flair that compensates for the too-chewy bread or the skimpy portion of chicken.
The salads look bright, taste lively and have clever little touches: dried cranberries in the wild rice, blue cheese in the pasta, a generous sprinkling of raspberries atop the mixed fresh fruit. To drink, there are chic bottled waters, all the current espresso variations and sometimes fresh lemonade made to order. And to finish, the counter is spread with pastries from one end to the other.
Dean & Deluca Cafes let the underpinnings of the room show and the food serve as decoration. They are stylish little interludes, places for a quick light meal (though the line is slow, so the quick part is sometimes more in the eating than in the serving). They're a prelude to the theater downtown or a reward for shopping in Georgetown. A sweet indulgence.
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